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This probably won’t come as news to any golfers struggling to get a tee time, but rounds played in July moved into record territory. According to industry research firm Golf Datatech rounds played were up 19.7 percent compared to last July. For the year, rounds are also trending up 3 percent. July’s big month marked

A 22-year-old Irishman made history on Thursday, becoming the first golfer with disabilities to compete in a European Tour event. Brendan Lawlor shot 84 in the first round of the ISPS Handa UK Championship at The Belfry in England. He has a rare genetic disorder called Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, which is characterized by short limb

3:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Phil Mickelson has won in his PGA Tour Champions debut. Mickelson closed with a 5-under 66 on Wednesday to win the Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National by four shots in Ridgedale, Missouri. With rounds of 61-64-66, Mickelson’s 22-under 191 total tied the lowest 54-hole score ever on the

Cameron Champ issued a statement against racial injustice on Wednesday. A video message from Champ, a two-time PGA Tour winner and one of just four players on tour with Black heritage, was posted on Twitter by the PGA Tour. “It’s just spreading awareness and sticking by what I believe in and what I believe needs

5:27 PM ET After splitting with his longtime coach earlier this year, former No. 1-ranked golfer Jason Day has reached out to another player whom he believes can help him understand his back issues: Tiger Woods. Woods, who successfully returned from spinal fusion surgery in 2017, has been talking to Day for about a month

Tiger Woods will open his first public course with a made-for TV exhibition featuring Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose. The 18-hole match will feature Woods teaming up with Thomas to face McIlroy and Rose. It will borrow elements from the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, using fourball, foursomes and singles formats. The event

During a teleconference with several Australian golf writers on Tuesday (hat tip to our friends at Australian Golf Digest), the 12-time PGA Tour winner revealed he’s been leaning on the 15-time major champ for advice of late—both concerning the golf swing and overcoming career obstacles. “I have been talking to Tiger about his swing and

9:29 PM ET Associated Press RIDGEDALE, Mo. — The hole Phil Mickelson considered the most important in the second round of his PGA Tour Champions career was not any of the eight he birdied but rather the only one on which he made bogey. He was 5 under after the front nine Tuesday at Ozarks

It wasn’t nearly a stage that compares to the final round of the Masters in the theater that is Augusta National. Not when it’s a Tuesday round on PGA Tour Champions. But like his famous shot on the 13th on Sunday en route to his 2010 Masters victory, Phil Mickelson pulled off another magical forest

3:16 PM ET Webb Simpson, who is ranked third in the FedEx Cup standings, has withdrawn from this week’s BMW Championship. “After playing consecutive weeks, Webb is taking the week off in order to be rested for the TOUR Championship in Atlanta,” a representative for Simpson said Tuesday. The field for this week’s playoff event

Bryson, in many ways, was one of golf’s most interesting characters before even transforming his body. And his success in the past couple of seasons have kept him in the conversation. The now 26-year-old made the U.S. Ryder Cup in 2018 after capturing three titles in the 2017-’18 season, including back-to-back wins in the FedEx

In 2018, Phil Mickelson beat Tiger Woods in The Match, a $9 million pay-per-view exhibition played on Thanksgiving weekend at Shadow Creek, the swanky Las Vegas course built by hotel and real-estate magnate Steve Wynn and designed by Tom Fazio. Now the PGA Tour will try its hand there. Tour officials announced on Monday that

8:47 PM ET Associated Press RIDGEDALE, Mo. — Just about the only poor shot Phil Mickelson hit in his PGA Tour Champions debut was a wayward iron off the tee. He still turned it into a birdie. It was one of five straight on the back nine Monday for the five-time major champion, who decided

The stories are legend of Phil Mickelson tossing up a 60 on one of his well-manicured home tracks in San Diego just before heading out on the PGA Tour, only for all that mojo to be gone when he steps on a meaty competitive course with rough and length and tricky greens. On Monday, it

7:11 PM ET NORTON, Mass. – PGA Tour rookie Scottie Scheffler‘s wild week took another turn Sunday in the final round of The Northern Trust when his caddie, Scott McGuinness, went down in the ninth fairway with a leg injury and had to be carted off the golf course. Eric Ledbetter, one of the assistant

In most sports, when referees do the job well they largely go unnoticed. They are there to officiate the outcome, not determine it. Golf, of course, operates a little differently. A rules official interjects when called upon. That’s what John Paramor and Andy McFee have done, with a distinct style, for the European Tour for

Mickelson has opened up as a heavy favorite to win the Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National at several books. And if you’re thinking that it’s odd for several books to even post PGA Tour Champions odds, well, you’d be right. Mickelson’s mere presence has given the 50-and-over tour a gambling boost. Here’s a sampling

8:18 PM ET Associated Press NORTON, Mass. — Dustin Johnson looked as dominant as he ever has, and nothing could stop him on Sunday in The Northern Trust. Not even the weather. Johnson played the final two holes in near darkness after a late storm delay and finished with a birdie for an 8-under 63

NORTON, Mass. — Shortcomings are part of the Dustin Johnson experience, the near-misses especially. There was a rather notable one only two weeks ago, in Johnson’s last start of the 2019-’20 PGA Tour regular season, when he slept on a 54-hole lead at the PGA Championship, shot 68 and lost. Still, if disappointment can come

2:20 PM ET NORTON, Mass. — Although golf has been back for more than two months, and Tiger Woods has played three events since the sport’s restart after the coronavirus-forced shutdown, he admitted after his final-round 66 at The Northern Trust that he’s still trying to adjust to this new reality of life on the

“I almost quit playing last year.” That sentence might go down as one of the most unlikely ever to be spoken during an AIG Women’s British Open champion’s speech. But it’s Sophia Popov’s reality. A battle with Lyme disease that went undiagnosed for three years and resulted in a 25-pound weight loss, and a game

Dustin Johnson is the most successful tour pro in FedEx Cup history never to have won the FedEx Cup. It’s not quite the same backhanded compliment as the “best player to have never won a major,” but it comes with a bit of ignominy, something Johnson certainly wouldn’t mind erasing over the course of the

7:47 PM ET Associated Press NORTON, Mass. — Dustin Johnson could have used a finish like this for a record score. The birdie-eagle ending to his round Saturday at The Northern Trust gave him a 7-under 64 and stretched his lead to five shots in the FedEx Cup playoffs opener. Johnson, coming off a remarkable

In some ways, the timing couldn’t have worked out better for Phil Mickelson. To be sure, he was disappointed to not make the weekend in the first event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at TPC Boston while failing to advance to the second event for the first time. But he didn’t mope for long. Mickelson,

1:38 PM ET NORTON, Mass. — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green early Saturday afternoon at The Northern Trust and looked like two men happy the day was done. After all, they had just spent a little less than five hours wandering around all parts of TPC Boston as Woods shot

Yeah, well, things have changed quickly over the past couple of months. According to figures from industry research firm Golf Datatech, the numbers from July for the sales of all categories of golf equipment were moving into record-setting territory. In some categories (notably the biggest ticket categories of woods and irons), sales were more than

Well … we’ve made it. After 10 weeks since the PGA Tour’s return post-COVID-19, the FedEx Cup Playoffs begin this week at TPC Boston with The Northern Trust, the first of three events culminating with the top 30 players making it to the Tour Championship at East Lake. The 125-man field will be cut down

8:25 PM ET ESPN News Services NORTON, Mass. — For the longest time Friday, it looked as if Scottie Scheffler‘s 59 might not even be the best score of the day at The Northern Trust. As Scheffler was signing his card, Dustin Johnson had already set off on an explosive start that put some buzz

The true golf purist may not have enjoyed it, but it was hard not to be captivated by what was happening on Friday at the Northern Trust. There were nearly two 59s, and 58 or 57 was not out of the question for Dustin Johnson at one point. It was a ridiculous day for scoring

1:58 PM ET Associated Press NORTON, Mass. — Scottie Scheffler is making quite an impression in his PGA Tour postseason debut, posting a 12-under 59 on Friday at The Northern Trust for the 12th sub-60 round in tour history. 11 different players have shot a sub-60 round, with Jim Furyk accomplishing the feat twice. Scheffler,